The Industrial Twilight: March Of Heroes / Phragments / Across The Rubicon

Sunday, May 10, 2015

March Of Heroes / Phragments / Across The Rubicon - "Scontrum Act VIII" [2008]

Artist: March Of Heroes / Phragments / Across The Rubicon

Title: Scontrum Act VIII

Genre: Martial Industrial

Country: France / Slovakia / Poland
Year: 2008

Track List:

March Of Heroes - Stalingrad... Our Last Hope Act 1
March Of Heroes - Stalingrad... Our Last Hope Act 2
March Of Heroes - Stalingrad... Our Last Hope Act 3
Phragments - Utopia
Phragments - Eruption
Phragments - Tragedy
Across The Rubicon - A Soldier
Across The Rubicon - Survivors
Across The Rubicon - A Ghost

"Scontrum Act VIII" is the 8th installation in the "Scontrum" series of (mostly) 3-way splits released by a Poland-based label War Office Propaganda. This particular split features March Of Heroes, Phragments and Across The Rubicon - from France, Slovakia and Poland respectively. "Act VIII" stands out of other martial industrial compilations because its participants aren't only making good music but also certainly aren't Nazi Germany sympathizers which are too commonly found in martial industrial and neofolk scene. Well, at least March of Heroes and Phragment certainly aren't. I don't know much about Across the Rubicon, but their part of the split is the most interesting music wise. As for the download link, try this Chinese site (it isn't hard to locate the download button there ;))

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